Fishing Lac du Notaire in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec

• Overview

  You will find Lac du Notaire in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec. Boreal forest runs right down to the water. This is a pocket water of some 5 hectares, and every part of it is reachable from the bank. You are 73 km from Pont Rouge. For a city, Saguenay is 105 km off. The county line is nowhere near, so one local authority covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lac du Notaire

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. Reported across Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean: northern pike, Atlantic salmon, lake whitefish and fallfish. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. Anyone new to Lac du Notaire should walk it once before setting up.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Climate normals give 16°C for July and -19°C for January. The window is narrow, and fish feed hard while it lasts. The lid arrives early and lasts until roughly early May. Averages suggest open water from about early May through to roughly mid November. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. Time your trip to Lac du Notaire by conditions rather than dates.

• Tackle & Baits

  We have no record of the rules that apply on this bank. There is no mapped parking or launch nearby, which keeps numbers down. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Some banks are open only from a marked point. Close seasons apply to some species and not others. Lac de l'Avocat, 0.7 km away, makes the obvious fallback. The position on Lac du Notaire is worth confirming on the day.